[MlMt] Any news?

[Thomas Eckhold]

Thanks for the update!

Let me suggest to keep the „Design Crowd Funding Campaign“ alive. I 
believe that a lot of users (especially new users) do not even know 
about this campaign. It isn not really advertised. That is why I thought 
a little friendly reminder on this list might help. :-)

I believe an improved visual concept of MailMate would also help to get 
some UI issues solved or eased at least  (e.g. the issue with the 
„SideBar organisational tabs/menus“).

--Thomas



On 26 Feb 2016, at 11:14, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 26 Feb 2016, at 10:25, Thomas Eckhold wrote:
>
>> I wonder if you could and want to share some news about the project 
>> [„Graphics 
>> Designer“](http://sites.fastspring.com/freron/product/graphicsdesigner)?
>
> Oh, how time flies. Good question. I've been thinking I should take 
> that down since it was probably not the best way to handle the issue 
> of graphics and visual design. I rarely get contributions now and I 
> believe it's at about 62%. Most of that money is already used on a new 
> application icon which I'm using on my own version of MailMate right 
> now.
>
> Let me take this opportunity to do a small status update (just for 
> this list). Some might have noticed that I'm some times using a 
> version of MailMate with this `X-Mailer` header: `2.0BETAr6002`. This 
> is almost identical to the 1.9.x releases except for two things: A lot 
> of changes with regard to how HTML is handled when replying/forwarding 
> (the achilles heel of MailMate) and a new headers view.
>
> I don't usually have two branches of MailMate. Most of my changes and 
> fixes are quickly released in 1.9.x test releases and this is how I 
> prefer to work, but this has led to some confusion. A lot of users 
> (and non-users) have the impression that I'm working on a huge new 
> separate 2.0 release, but this has never been the case. MailMate has 
> moved from version 1.5.3 to 1.9.3 since the crowd funding more than 2 
> years ago and as most of you know then the release notes are a mile 
> long.
>
> The reason I do have a separate 2.0 beta running myself now (again, 
> only with a few new features) is that I want to change how I work on 
> new features. The official 1.9.x releases are only going to be for 
> fixes and minor changes and the 2.0 beta gets all the new features. 
> When I think it's ready then I'll bump the beta to be the official 
> MailMate 2.0 release and then go back to a single branch of 
> development.
>
> In other words, I hope to release the 2.0 beta as soon as possible to 
> stop any speculation that something completely different than 1.9.x is 
> in the works. The 2.0 beta is still too unstable to be released. To be 
> honest, I'm not making progress as quickly as I would like -- 
> primarily because of too much incoming email pointing out issues and 
> bugs in the 1.9.x releases. I'm sure most of you know that feeling 
> since you are using MailMate to handle your emails :-)
>
> Hmm, I'm afraid I just added to the confusion now :-)
>
> Have a nice weekend.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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